β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.
β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.